garda stopping outside pub

patwicklow

i was out to night having a few beers and at about 10.40pm i went outside to have a smoke and there in front of me was 3 garda on the main road stopping traffic.
that was no problem with me as i got a lift over and was getting a lift back home. my problem was with the cars in the car park as the pub is a B+B aswell
as i and two others were smoking the garda went over to the cars in the car park with there torches and looked at the window screens looking at the tax ect and they knew we were there as if to say we were driving the cars ect, even though we arranged lifts home ect, to me now it seems were living in 1940.s russia the way things have gone, this is a pub and a very famous pub, too theres 5 pubs closed in the area in the last 4 years and the best of it is there was only 5 people in that bar. and all of us had arranged a lift home we had no cars in the car park to me now its put me from going out to a pub again and no wonder the pubs are finished, i went to london when i was 16 came back 5 years ago im now 40 years of age to me now i plan to go abroad again and i will never set foot on the ireland of ireland again,i am an irish man and il be proud to be an irish man but never in this country, i will be abroad,this country is finished to the people who are going to live in it. because in getting out of it i dont mind and i wont be back never.

brendansmith

Go to bed. Youre drunk.

filthymcnasty

my understanding of this is you are leaving the country never to return cos the cops were out checking for tax.
As good an excuse as any I suppose.

Yakult

lol at op

Super-Rush

IBTL

m@cc@

patwicklow wrote: »

i was out to night having a few beers and at about 10.40pm i went outside to have a smoke and there in front of me was 3 garda on the main road stopping traffic.
that was no problem with me as i got a lift over and was getting a lift back home. my problem was with the cars in the car park as the pub is a B+B aswell
as i and two others were smoking the garda went over to the cars in the car park with there torches and looked at the window screens looking at the tax ect and they knew we were there as if to say we were driving the cars ect, even though we arranged lifts home ect, to me now it seems were living in 1940.s russia the way things have gone, this is a pub and a very famous pub, too theres 5 pubs closed in the area in the last 4 years and the best of it is there was only 5 people in that bar. and all of us had arranged a lift home we had no cars in the car park to me now its put me from going out to a pub again and no wonder the pubs are finished, i went to london when i was 16 came back 5 years ago im now 40 years of age to me now i plan to go abroad again and i will never set foot on the ireland of ireland again,i am an irish man and il be proud to be an irish man but never in this country, i will be abroad,this country is finished to the people who are going to live in it. because in getting out of it i dont mind and i wont be back never.

I can only hope you're drunk. How are the police to know who has arranged lifts? Their actions have nothing to do with pubs closing and I have absolutely no issues with the Gardai going OTT when it comes to drink driving. Close the door on your way out if you have a problem with it.

patwicklow

brendansmith wrote: »

Go to bed. Youre drunk.

no im far from drunk i was playing darts had 4 pints bud, it was just going outside 3 gaurds on a country road laughing and joking among them selfs flashing the torches at the parked cars, na **** that i aint gonna live in a nanny state you may but i wont

Super-Rush

patwicklow wrote: »

no im far from drunk i was playing darts had 4 pints bud, it was just going outside 3 gaurds on a country road laughing and joking among them selfs flashing the torches at the parked cars, na **** that i aint gonna live in a nanny state you may but i wont

m@cc@

patwicklow wrote: »

no im far from drunk i was playing darts had 4 pints bud, it was just going outside 3 gaurds on a country road laughing and joking among them selfs flashing the torches at the parked cars, na **** that i aint gonna live in a nanny state you may but i wont

That term is banded about so much that it's lost all meaning. Incidentally OP, where do you plan to move to?

Kepti

m@cc@ wrote: »

That term is banded about so much that it's lost all meaning. Incidentally OP, where do you plan to move to?

Later guys, I'm sick of this nanny state.

*moves back to London*

patwicklow

m@cc@ wrote: »

I can only hope you're drunk. How are the police to know who has arranged lifts? Their actions have nothing to do with pubs closing and I have absolutely no issues with the Gardai going OTT when it comes to drink driving. Close the door on your way out if you have a problem with it.

you may be in oz but the country pubs here are closing up day by day and i know drunk driving ect is totally wrong, but 3 gaurds outside a bar? with 5 locals inside it?? and they were stopping on a very dangerous corner?? if i named the pub most people would know it.and what right did they have looking at windscreens of cars when there parked up on private Property? it was intimation
because we were just there having a smoke thats what..

OutlawPete

super-rush wrote: »

IBTL

Nah, sure I'll leave it open for another while yet

patwicklow

m@cc@ wrote: »

That term is banded about so much that it's lost all meaning. Incidentally OP, where do you plan to move to?

good old west london were the irish there are more irish, then the irish here if ya get my drift.

x PyRo

patwicklow wrote: »

no im far from drunk i was playing darts had 4 pints bud, it was just going outside 3 gaurds on a country road laughing and joking among them selfs flashing the torches at the parked cars, na **** that i aint gonna live in a nanny state you may but i wont

So people doing their jobs makes you want to leave your own country ?. Makes no sense to me at all, If they wern't going around the street doing their job then you'd be complaining that there's not enough policing and that you don't feel safe... Either way, you make no sense, to me anyways.

If people in this country of ours sorted out their priorities and stopped being pissed about fuck all then it'd be a better place. We don't realize how good we've got it here.

Kepti

patwicklow wrote: »

good old west london were the irish there are more irish, then the irish here if ya get my drift.

I do not get your drift, please elaborate. Is this a thinly veiled "grr immigrants" comment or am I off the mark?

m@cc@

patwicklow wrote: »

you may be in oz but the country pubs here are closing up day by day and i know drunk driving ect is totally wrong, but 3 gaurds outside a bar? with 5 locals inside it?? and they were stopping on a very dangerous corner?? if i named the pub most people would know it.and what right did they have looking at windscreens of cars when there parked up on private Property? it was intimation
because we were just there having a smoke thats what..

I'm afraid you're straining to do some explaining. Seems like you have a problem with the Gardai to begin with. They have every right to look at something which is in public view and I really don't see how it was intimidation.

The days when people turned a blind eye to drink-driving are over and rather than criticise them, you should be thanking them. It's your safety they're looking out for too.

patwicklow wrote: »

good old west london

Well, as long as you're leaving the nanny state behind.

OutlawPete

I got breathalyzed coming home from the cinema the other night and the Guard let me keep the plastic thingamajig on top.

It makes the best hash pipe ever

Kepti

x PyRo wrote: »

If people in this country of ours sorted out their priorities and stopped being pissed about fuck all then it'd be a better place. We don't realize how good we've got it here.

Agreed. People need a healthy dose of perspective. It's an easy trap to fall into though. I'm often guilty of complaining about ultimately inconsequential shit.

x PyRo

OutlawPete wrote: »

It makes the best hash pipe ever

I've got to get myself one of these!

CHD

Where in Wicklow was this Pat? I understand you 100%. This is not on, cops bloody doing things like this.

patwicklow

OutlawPete wrote: »

I got breathalyzed coming home from the cinema the other night and the Guard let me keep the plastic thingamajig on top.

It makes the best hash pipe ever

proud to say i never smoked that crap or never will

OutlawPete

patwicklow wrote: »

proud to say i never smoked that crap or never will

Either did I

Comic license and all that .. nudge, nudge .. ;)

It does look like it would make a good one though.

x PyRo

CHD wrote: »

Where in Wicklow was this Pat? I understand you 100%. This is not on, cops bloody doing things like this.

Yeah, how dare people do what they're paid to do!

patwicklow wrote: »

proud to say i never smoked that crap or never will

If you did you'd be able to fly to London for FREE!

patwicklow

m@cc@ wrote: »

I'm afraid you're straining to do some explaining. Seems like you have a problem with the Gardai to begin with. They have every right to look at something which is in public view and I really don't see how it was intimidation.

The days when people turned a blind eye to drink-driving are over and rather than criticise them, you should be thanking them. It's your safety they're looking out for too.



Well, as long as you're leaving the nanny state behind.

i have never had a problem with the gardai infact i know a good few and respect what they do as its not an easy job anyone would have to see what went on to believe

Kepti

m@cc@ wrote: »

Well, as long as you're leaving the nanny state behind.

I found this hilarious. It's like someone deciding that Ireland is too wet for them and then moving to the Atlantic.

OutlawPete wrote: »

I got breathalyzed coming home from the cinema the other night and the Guard let me keep the plastic thingamajig on top.

It makes the best hash pipe ever

Awesome username/post combination. Admirable resourcefulness too.

edit: Probably should include that it's not a good idea to be smoking from anything plastic, just in case anyone has any ideas. Fumes from melted plastic can be highly toxic.

Overheal

super-rush wrote: »

I havent laughed so hard in weeks.

patwicklow

CHD wrote: »

Where in Wicklow was this Pat? I understand you 100%. This is not on, cops bloody doing things like this.

right outside the meetings of the waters on that very dangerous bend they were stopping.

CHD

patwicklow wrote: »

right outside the meetings of the waters on that very dangerous bend they were stopping.

Fúckin cops chcking cars in a pub at a dangerous bend :rolleyes:

What will they do next? Arrest a burglar or something.

m@cc@

CHD wrote: »

Fúckin cops chcking cars in a pub at a dangerous bend :rolleyes:

What will they do next? Arrest a burglar or something.

Can't anybody in this town take the law into their own hands?

patwicklow

m@cc@ wrote: »

Can't anybody in this town take the law into their own hands?

how do i close this post sick of this by now tunnel vision comments...

sdanseo

I'm tempted to think the OP is blaming alcohol checkpoints and drink driving laws for closing down country pubs, at least in part.

In which case let them close! If the only way they can support their business is by having their customers flout the law, knowingly, then they deserve nothing better.

m@cc@

patwicklow wrote: »

how do i close this post sick of this by now tunnel vision comments...

Ah ha ha ha, 'tunnel vision' 'nanny state' 'were the irish there are more irish, then the irish here'. I wish you all the best, I'm sure London will be a treat.

patwicklow

sdonn wrote: »

I'm tempted to think the OP is blaming alcohol checkpoints and drink driving laws for closing down country pubs, at least in part.

In which case let them close! If the only way they can support their business is by having their customers flout the law, knowingly, then they deserve nothing better.

no way it was the fact that they went to the parked up cars and with there flash lights were looking at the wind screens it was a private car park they knew we were there at the door having a smoke even though the cars were,nt ours

patwicklow

m@cc@ wrote: »

Ah ha ha ha, 'tunnel vision' 'nanny state' 'were the irish there are more irish, then the irish here'. I wish you all the best, I'm sure London will be a treat.

yes thats why folk like you are in melbourne

Kepti

patwicklow wrote: »

no way it was the fact that they went to the parked up cars and with there flash lights were looking at the wind screens it was a private car park they knew we were there at the door having a smoke even though the cars were,nt ours

Are you sure there isn't anything that you're leaving out of this story? It just seems like you've worked yourself up over something completely inane.

Pride Fighter

patwicklow wrote: »

no way it was the fact that they went to the parked up cars and with there flash lights were looking at the wind screens it was a private car park they knew we were there at the door having a smoke even though the cars were,nt ours

You do not know what they were checking for. They could have been checking for drugs, illegal tobacco in the parked cars, and had they had found some they would have impounded the vehicle. Its well known that cigarettes are being illegally sold in pub car parks.

TBH you sound as if you have a chip on your shoulder. If you want to get away from a nanny state London is not the place to go. Some people were humorously implying as much, which you did not notice, but the UK is the country with the highest CCTV coverage in the world and an even greater nanny state than this place.

Bye bye.

Shut the door on your way out.

patwicklow

Pride Fighter wrote: »

You do not know what they were checking for. They could have been checking for drugs, illegal tobacco in the parked cars, and had they had found some they would have impounded the vehicle. Its well known that cigarettes are being illegally sold in pub car parks.

TBH you sound as if you have a chip on your shoulder. If you want to get away from a nanny state London is not the place to go. Some people were humorously implying as much, which you did not notice, but the UK is the country with the highest CCTV coverage in the world and an even greater nanny state than this place.

Bye bye.

Shut the door on your way out.

were not talking about a city center 5 locals in the place any way your from anglo irish so it says what do you know,

CHD

Have a cuppa and go to bed Pat, ger'rup outa that garden.

Canis Lupus

patwicklow wrote: »

good old west london were the irish there are more irish, then the irish here if ya get my drift.

I can't park outside my local tescos (on a quiet road) here in good old West London without a council camera giving me a ticket. This city is awesome but it has its downsides and it being big brother heaven is one of them.

TomBeckett

patwicklow wrote: »

i was out to night having a few beers and at about 10.40pm i went outside to have a smoke and there in front of me was 3 garda on the main road stopping traffic.
that was no problem with me as i got a lift over and was getting a lift back home. my problem was with the cars in the car park as the pub is a B+B aswell
as i and two others were smoking the garda went over to the cars in the car park with there torches and looked at the window screens looking at the tax ect and they knew we were there as if to say we were driving the cars ect, even though we arranged lifts home ect, to me now it seems were living in 1940.s russia the way things have gone, this is a pub and a very famous pub, too theres 5 pubs closed in the area in the last 4 years and the best of it is there was only 5 people in that bar. and all of us had arranged a lift home we had no cars in the car park to me now its put me from going out to a pub again and no wonder the pubs are finished, i went to london when i was 16 came back 5 years ago im now 40 years of age to me now i plan to go abroad again and i will never set foot on the ireland of ireland again,i am an irish man and il be proud to be an irish man but never in this country, i will be abroad,this country is finished to the people who are going to live in it. because in getting out of it i dont mind and i wont be back never.

Pat.. Your F**king Dead right.. Ireland is gone a country thats fast becoming
a country thats impossible to live in..it went from one extreem ot the other
very fast.... I dont want to think what it will be like in another ten years!!! Thankfully i dont care:) I wont be in it... Weather is lovely here too:D:D:D

DrumSteve

patwicklow wrote: »

i was out to night having a few beers and at about 10.40pm i went outside to have a smoke and there in front of me was 3 garda on the main road stopping traffic.
that was no problem with me as i got a lift over and was getting a lift back home. my problem was with the cars in the car park as the pub is a B+B aswell
as i and two others were smoking the garda went over to the cars in the car park with there torches and looked at the window screens looking at the tax ect and they knew we were there as if to say we were driving the cars ect, even though we arranged lifts home ect, to me now it seems were living in 1940.s russia the way things have gone, this is a pub and a very famous pub, too theres 5 pubs closed in the area in the last 4 years and the best of it is there was only 5 people in that bar. and all of us had arranged a lift home we had no cars in the car park to me now its put me from going out to a pub again and no wonder the pubs are finished, i went to london when i was 16 came back 5 years ago im now 40 years of age to me now i plan to go abroad again and i will never set foot on the ireland of ireland again,i am an irish man and il be proud to be an irish man but never in this country, i will be abroad,this country is finished to the people who are going to live in it. because in getting out of it i dont mind and i wont be back never.

where is this place of which you speak?

Biggins

Looks like the OP was well locked before this thread will be lol.

super_furry

patwicklow wrote: »

how do i close this post sick of this by now tunnel vision comments...

Call the Gardai, maybe they can help?

biko

OP, PM me or the other AH mods if you want thread re-opened after you wake up.